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Summer months are often slower in academia, even for those of us in the medical school curriculum, but one thing that we love to do in summer is research! This issue of the Medical Library Newsletter is all about enhancing your scholarly profile, disseminating your research, and making yourself known to your peers and to the world of scholarly publishing.
This month's newletter features:
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| Upcoming Library Workshops - Scholarship
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The Medical Library recently conducted a workshop about finding the right journal for your manuscript (for more information, see below), but we have two additional workshops centered around scholarship that fit the theme of this newsletter, so be sure to register!
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| Where Do I Publish This Stuff?
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You've done the research, you've written the manuscript, you've managed to scrape together funding for any potential open access fees you might run into - now what? It can be difficult to find the right journal for your article, but there are a weatlh of tools out there that can help. We have a guide that can direct you to journals that you might consider, and the table below also lists a few options for journal hunting. Additionally, the medical librarians are happy to help with this process as well, so please reach out to us if you need any guidance on where you can disseminate your research.
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| Digital Repositories - Storing Your Research
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You've written your manuscript, attained publication, and drafted up an author profile, so what's next? Let us introduce you to digital repositories. While your published work is generally safe within a journal or indexed database, if you are part of an institution like OUWB or Corewell, you have access to several different digital repositories.
Digital Commons is a commercial, cloud-based institutional repository platform from Elsevier designed to showcase and preserve an institution’s scholarly output while providing analytics to track global impact. The OUWB Medical Library, through a joint license agreement with the Corewell Health East Medical Library, utilizes this platform to manage and showcase the scholarly work of the OUWB faculty and students.
OUR@Oakland is another option, hosted locally, where your work can be deposited and accessed by the public or kept private. OUWB has its own "community" within OUR where you can see poster presentations from past years MedEd Week and Embark submissions.
Please reach out to your medical librarian if you'd like to learn more about depositing with OUR@Oakland or Digital Commons.
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| Author Profiles - What and Why
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You've published! Congratulations - but now what? How do people find your work? How do you keep track of what you've published, your metrics, and who might be citing your research? This is where Author Profiles can be your best friend.
There are many platforms for showcasing your authorship, but here are a few of the big names to get you started. And again, the Medical Library is here to help you set up or edit any of these - just reach out!
ORCID - The gold standard in author profiles, ORCID is not only a recommended resource, but many peer-reviewed journals now require it for submission to their platform. ORCID is free and quick to set up, allows authors to import and edit their own work, but also allows publishers, using your specific numbered ID, to auto-populate your profile with published works.
Google Scholar Profile - Google Scholar has recently enhanced its author profile page to allow for more information, flexiibility, and visibility. One advantage of Google Scholar's profile design is that it will create metrics based on more than just indexed journals - it scrapes any mention of your work from Google Scholar. Metrics, things like h-index or i10, are higher on Google Scholar than elsehwere, making it increasingly important for promoting one's work.
Scopus Profile - Scopus, a multidisciplinary database, has an automatic author profiling system. If you publish in a journal indexed by Scopus, which is a majority of the high-profile medical journals, you will automatically have an author profile set up based on your name and affiliation. However, it's in your best interest to monitor this profile and ensure any name or affiliation changes remain comprehensive on your profile.
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Every newsletter, we will try to bring readers some new development in Artifical Intelligence and how it relates to research, medical education, or productivity. Or, we might simply have David wax philosophical about AI and its impact on the world. Will it save us? Will it ruin us? Who can say!
Given the focus on publishing in this quarter's newsletter, what is going on with AI in the publishing world?
The biggest news with AI in publishing right now is journal standards for reporting AI use in your research or writing. But how can they detect it? And realistiically, how much of the scientific literature being published today has been written by AI?
Nature just published an article going into detail about this very topic. Some key points in the article:
- Authors estimated that by February this year (2026), submissions with more than 70% AI-generated text had more than doubled compared with the numbers seen in early 2024.
- For computer science, review preprints containing AI-generated text increased from about 7% in 2023 to 43% in 2025. Non-review manuscripts in this field that contained AI-generated text also grew from around 3% to 23% during the same period.
- The field of AI detection will likely become the fastest growing and impactful area of industry as these trends continue.
However, as AI becomes increasingly embedded in the very systems we use to do research or write our manuscripts, how can we protect ourselves from being falsely accused? Do we lock ourselves in a cabin and write on an old-fashioned typewriter just to be safe? While many academics are likely doing just that, the amount of false-flag detection makes even manual writing a hazard. For now, there are no easy answers, but it is important that we are aware of what is happening with AI and how best to either utilize or avoid it.
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